"In all but detail it is a zombie film"

Rating: 7/10 (19 August 2010)

The easiest thing to put immediately to one side is that Danny Boyle is a fine director, his broad range of work and varying styles is an excellent body of work.
So it is no surprise that visually we have a film that works. It looks more expensive than it is with a budget of around 5 million (almost equivalent to the budget given to Shaun of the dead) Boyle makes the most of it with ingenious methods for getting the shots that he wants giving the film a scope beyond its limitations.
In all but detail it is a zombie film. They maybe quicker and technically not dead but it is a technicality that the viewer will soon forget.
Credit to writer Alex Garland who takes time to explain the cause of the infection without bogging down the story in needless exposition. Also credit too that he creates realistic characters, survivors who we can relate with.
Yes the film falls away into convention later on with the meeting between survivors and British military (Why do British soldiers seem more unnerving?) and has a few questionable moments which could make you go "what?!" but you have to forgive it for these conventions.